Mrs Nat

The big question within Scottish Education and probably English Education at the moment is Active Learning. How and why do you do it? I am one of these people who does carry it out in our school. Within 10 classes in the school I am the person that does it the most. That is not to blow my trumpet I just find with the children that I work with it suits THEM. I have to say that I am better at carrying it out during Maths I find that it is easier to think of and adapt activities for the…More

Ok here is the grip that I was talking about!

One of the children in my class has major problems not only does she have ‘learning difficulties’ she has now been diagnosed with severe DCD (Dysprixia). I am glad she has got this diagnoses because she really does deserve it and I am hoping it leads to a classroom assistant for her! Whatever the test was that the OT did it flagged up HOW poor her motor skills are, under a score of 5 was considered poor in this test she came out at 0.5. It really is painful to watch this child do anything that is motor related, it…More

I am a Twitter addict I will admit it! I feel lost without it, however my network has changed in recent months from me posting silly things like ‘taking dogs for walk’ to now having a load of teacher ‘friends’. These people that I talk too are inspiring the types of teachers that I want to be. Most are ICT ‘Gods’ and seem to have ICT in every aspect of their life (or perhaps that is how it seems). Most are leaders or deputes or I think one or two head teachers in the mix. They inspire the children that…More

in charge of my class over the next 7 weeks I plan to do lots. However one project I want to do is for the first time ever do a project using garageband. I have never got around to using it – to be honest I have probably put it off. Having little ones I am not brave enough to do these things on my own. So having read an e-book (free) called Amazing web 2 projects I have decided to have a go in conjunction with my student. We are going to (not that she is aware yet) do…More